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BIAS—B/DHUNA. pack-sheep with Takla Khar, in Tibet,

comprise grain, cotton, hardware,

The whole

southern produce.

name

of Bians, and

— the

and Chinese

wools, drugs, precious stones,

imports being silks

tobacco,

valley

419

sugar,

also

is

salt,

gold,

while the exports



and other

dyes,

known by

the general

inhabited by a special class of Bhutias, speaking

is

a peculiar dialect of their own.

Bias. Bias.

— One of the — River

five rivers

See Beas.

of the Punjab.

rising in the hills of

Sirmau

Bhopdl

in

State, close to

the south-western boundary of Sagar (Saugor) District, Central Pro-

vinces

flows in a north-easterly direction, passing, within 10 miles of



Sagar, beneath a fine iron suspension bridge of 200 feet span, built

by

Colonel

Presgrave

Narsinghgarh, in

Damoh

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in

1832,

and

falls

into

the

Sonar

near

District.

Guaranteed Thakurate under the Western Malwa Bichhraud. Agency of Central India. Bickaneer. State, Rajputdna. See Bikaner. Bidar {Bedar). Town in the Nizam’s Dominions, Haidarabad (Hyderabad), Deccan situated near the right bank of the Manjera, 75 miles north-west of Haidarabad town. Lat. 17° 53' n., long. 77° 34' e. It was the capital of the Bahmani Muhammadan dynasty, which ruled up to the middle of the i6th century. The town is surrounded by an extensive curtain, now much dilapidated, on one of the bastions of which lies an old gun 21 feet long. There is a minaret in the town 100 feet high, and on a plain to the south-west stand many large tombs.

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The

place

This

noted for the metal ware to which

is

an alloy of copper, lead,

is

tin,

articles of very elegant design, inlaid

times also with gold.

which

is

An

its name. worked into generally with silver, but some-

and

interesting

it

has given

which

is

account of the manufacture,

said to be gradually dying out, will be found in Balfour’s

Cyclopcedia of India^ vol.

Bldesir.

—Town

i.

pp. 369, 370.

in Bikaner (Bickaneer) State,

48' 50" N., long. 74° 22' 15" Povvlett, in the Gazetteer

E.,

Of Agarwalas,

there are about 18 houses. is

lat.

27°

Captain

A number of of Bikaner^ says of this place Oswals, of whom there are 224 houses.

live here, chiefly

Bidesir

Rajputana;

about 60 miles from Bikaner.

wealthy Seths

men.

zinc,



Perhaps 30 of these are rich

not a place of manufacture or

much

trade.

The

bazaar contains about 136 shops, and there are 10 temples, and almost

many

Fairly good water is reached at the depth of about below the surface. Inferior sand and limestone are obtained Post-office. in the neighbourhood. Bidhuna. North-eastern tahsil of Etawah District, North-Western Provinces. Area, 314 square miles, of which 141 are cultivated; as

100

chhatris.

feet

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population (1881) 138,149 ; land revenue, ^25,674 ; total Government revenue, ;^28,79i ; rental paid by cultivators, ;^4o,456 ; incidence of